Mark Aston row grows as rugby league faces potential coaching revolt

  • Sheffield Eagles coach suspended until April 2026
  • Punished for ‘flouting rules’ over player head injuries

The Rugby Football League is ­facing a potential revolt after a number of high-profile professional rugby league coaches signed a letter calling for the Sheffield coach, Mark Aston, to be allowed an independent appeal against his 18-month ban for a breach of head injury protocol.

Aston, who has been involved with the Eagles for almost 40 years as player and coach and was man of the match in their 1998 Challenge Cup final win against Wigan, has been told he will be suspended until April 2026 after a tribunal determined he “deliberately flouted the rules” on head injuries earlier this year.

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Mark King hit with five-year ban from snooker and heavy fine for match fixing

  • Player guilty of providing inside information on match
  • Other charges relating to separate incident dismissed

Mark King has been banned from snooker for five years after being found guilty of match fixing.

An independent disciplinary committee found the 50-year-old Englishman guilty of one count of match fixing and one count of providing inside information on a match. The former Northern Ireland Open champion was suspended by the sport’s world governing body, the WPBSA, in March 2023 after suspicious betting was reported on his match with Joe Perry in the previous month’s Welsh Open.

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Is Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson a real fight?

Ever since Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson was announced the first time early this year, there have been plenty of questions surrounding this fight on Friday at the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium that also serves as streaming giant Netflix's first foray into combat sports. Chief among